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‘COUNTRY Cuba REPORT NO. «- CSC1-316/00704-64
suuect (fnu) RELOVA oate.osta, 1 September 1964

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THIS 38 UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE G&ADINGS ART DEFINITIVE APFRAITAL OF CONTENT [3 TENTATIVE.

source, A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban
Intelligence Service until April 1964.

Headquarters Comments:

The following report is one of a series containing personality
information provided by tne source and includes supplemental
information from the records of this Agency.

It is requested that the addressees take no action on any of
the individuals mentioned in the personulity réports without
first checking with this Agency.

(fnu) RELOVA, psecdonym “Wilberto," is an officer of the
Direccion General de latelizencia (General Directorate of
Intelligence - DGI) in Cuba. He resides at Calle 15 number
2419, Reparte Juaa Manuel Marquez, Palya de Santa Fe, Mariano,
Habana, 3,4,5,6

Headquarters Comments

1. An airline passenger manifest revealed that one Osvaldo
RELOVA Penichet, provsabdly identical with the above Subject,
left Mexico for Habana on 8 July 1963 and was the holder
of Cuban passport nuaber D/63/415,.

2, An foffic1al Jamaican svurcel in a report dated 16 October 1963,
stated that Osvaldo RELOVA; the Farst Secretary of the
Cuban Embassy in Canada, arrived in Kingston on 14 October, 1963.
He was in Kingston for one week add lived at the Cuban .
Consulate office, RELOVA was reportedly making an inspection
trip. RELOVA was born on 13 August 1930, in Habana. His
home address was given as 15H 2419 Santa Fe, Habana. He

carried Cuban passport number D/63/415, issued in Habana 5
on 17 June 1963. 4
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In a report dated 19 October 1963, source unanown, it wax stated:

that one Osvaldo RELOVA Penichet was appointed administrator of
“Envases del Cerro, S.A." firm, located on Calzada del Cerro

Avenue, Habana.-

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A fairly reliable source, in a report dated 23 October 1963,
revealed that Osvaldo RELOVA, First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy
dn Canada, left Kingston for Toronto on 2] October 1963, on -

TCA flight number 8485,

Anfofficial cabhdtan source), in a report dated 26 Novenber 1963,
sald that Osvaldo RELOVA Pénicitet, born on 13 August. 1930, was

not the First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Canada as previous
reports stated, Rather, RELOVA, who was a frequent visitor to
Canada, traveled as an “Embassy Inspector." He carried Cuban
Diplomatic passport D/63/415 with Mexican visa number OF-7090; he
had no Canadian visa. The address on his passport was given as

15/3 number 2419, Santa Fe Banch (sic). Habana. RELOVA entered
Canada on 16 August 1963, destined to visit Jesus YANES Rodriguez,
Cuban Commerical Attache in Montreal. He departed Canadas for Nexico
on 25 August 1963, in the company of Alberta MENDUCA.

A former Cuban Intelligence officer who has been living in the United!’
States since 1963 and whose reporting over the past nine monchs has
proven reliable, gave thé following information on 21 July 1964,

on Osvaldo RELOBA Pencchet (presumably identical with RELOVA):

In early 1961, RELOBA was an administrator of a section
of the Consolidated Hardware Stores and annexes. In late
1961 he went to sce source to get help with an investigation
on a Mr. BARRAL, Administrator of the Consolidated (sic).
RELOBA was requesting source's aid in the belief that source
was still working for G-2; source did not tell him otherwise,
RELOBA is a new Communist who wants to be more than MARX and
is trying to instruct everyone around him. Source said that .
RELOBA was born about 1934, is 164 pounds, five feet nine
inches in height, has a medium thin build, a long tace, and
& long thin neck. He has dark eyes, black hair, is partially
bald, and has a small, thin mustache,

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